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Posted: 10/14/2008 7:40:19 PM | | What you don't like, call "ignorant". That will make it go away... the truth is that throwing around pop psychology as the cause of your ill is what is ignorant. Before Cosmo and the "how to have vaginal orgasms with fresh fruit TODAY!!!" crowd became the modern DYI for women in relationships, there was no discussion of "bipolar", expect in behavioral psych classes in midwestern schools. Now, hairdressers throw it around like they just finished studying the DSMIV and wrapping up that clinical masters. Give me a break. It makes good Oprah. but lousy medicine, and a stupid way to live your live. Trying to find that one disease that makes your relationship sour, or causes you not to be Cinderella is the Dr.Phil American Dream...if I can just get past this thing. Just more dissatisfaction at not getting that instant Ozzie and Harriet. People refuse to work at relationships, and it usually relationships they shouldn't be in anyway. | |
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Posted: 10/15/2008 6:13:00 AM | Why tea in china...? maybe a ferrari or an enzo, or woteva.. oh wait are you a business person that specializes in FMCG goods... if not are u a tea addict... but why tea china... ide understand if you said all the gold in the world but why tea... forgive me for hanging on to one little statement, but ... why tea | |
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Posted: 10/15/2008 11:34:06 AM | | i have bi-polar and yes we can be hard to live with, i suffer from insecurities, low self esteem and am not a confident person. Every day i have to battle with this illness and make myself get go out hold down a job, family and house. i have mood swings and no im not easy to live with, ill admit that but guilt for the way u r when having an episode consumes u all the time. i have good months and bad and have just come out of a relationship, so at the moment its pretty bad but sometimes people take advantage . During an episode sometimes i dont even relise how i am or what i am doing days and weeks roll into one and to recall the smallest detail is very hard. from personal experience stress usually triggers of episodes and it can be the smallest thing but please remeber we can not control these feelings and often dont realise that it is even happening. we didnt ask to have this chemical inbalance and there is no cure. the only way i can describe it is like having an outer body experience ur there but ur not. If we had cancer or a terminal disease people would be more understanding, bi-polar is a disease that eats away at ur brain making u have irrational feelings that u are unable to control, and after that the depression hits. i have never cheated once on any of my partners and i left my last relationship because of my bi-polar why should i put someone through my moods swings. | |
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Posted: 1/14/2009 5:29:03 PM | | well its jan 14th of 09, an update on my ex bipolar hubby, around Nov of 08, i found out i was divorced since june of 08, didnt even know it, but bipolar hubby knew it and kept it from me he knew where i lived i lived elsewhere in another house i rented with my daughter he kept the divorce from me saying we should talk about the "separation" he would come over and would not cummunicate, he would just hug me, cry and not really talk, i would get upset also thinking we were just separated for about a yr really, well i found out accidently from my medical insurance that i was no longer insured, i called him and asked him about it, he told me we dont have a mariage anymore, i said we do to, well i went to the courthouse and they showed me the divorce papers, and that i had iwas served papers and the divorce was final last June, i said oh my god! i read the papers and i had lost everything, the house, cars etc. the papers were served at his address not mine and he never told me a thing. i can get him for fraud but no money to get a lawyer and its too late now. so this bipolar man really was smart to do this evil thing after i loved him very much and tried to help him, i will never get with another bipolar man ever again. | |
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Posted: 1/14/2009 5:42:03 PM | I don't know what to say except I am sorry.
I hope that your year improves and this becomes a faded memory soon. | |
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Posted: 1/14/2009 6:03:05 PM | | i am seperated from my wife who is bipolar,she says she is not but i checked out all the symptoms and yes she is.i had another expierience with a bipolar person (my ex girlfriend) i have known my wife for 20+ yrs we had ran into each other a couple of yrs ago then we got together and we were married in 2007.after we were married she started changing real fast but before hand she had mood swings but it got worse.i had been divorced from my first wife for 13 yrs untill i married again.when we got together i was so much in love with her and thought we would be together forever and i still am in love with her and cant get her off my mind.i've been without her for 5 monthes now and just cant get over her yet,but i have to sometime.thank god for my friends who have talked to me and put alittle thought into my mind.my wife kissed me one morning told me she loved me then 3 hrs later told me she wanted me out and put all my things in the garage so i left.i feel like she has died now and still cry when i think about us.i pray to god to help me and i think he is,i think he wants me to be with someone else now.i have this feeling that in time she will come looking for me but i dont know what i will do if she wants me to go back to her.she has lied to me i think she has cheated but not sure.i have never lied to her or cheated or even thought of cheating.3 weeks before our first wedding anniversary she did all this,now im so scared of another relationship because i think the next person will do the same thing.i just guess i still havent found the rite one yet,but i know someday i will. | |
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Posted: 1/14/2009 7:20:31 PM | | it won't ever be the same if u do get back with her, she will still be the same, i know what you are going thru i loved my husband but he is so messed up even his meds dont help him, if u do go back with her u will lose your mind and she will make u believe your the one that has the problem and u will think you do too, i know i started to think it was me but it wasnt i had to leave, not walking on eggshells any more but lonely. | |
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Posted: 1/14/2009 10:09:02 PM | I have met a wonderful man. We were shopping in his neck of the woods. We drove into the parking lot that was full of people and cars and he said he can't deal with all of it. Something pretty normal to say. Well, I sat quietly waiting for the yelling and screaming to start about how this was and is all my fault some how. Instead, I laughed. I looked at my bf and just smiled and thought wow, this is what is like to be with someone that isn't bipolar.
Today my daughter and I were going to meet him at a restaurant. We were ten minutes late, he had to wait 10 minutes plus whatever because he arrived early. He didn't yell scream or even bring up being late except to say that the waitress said about a woman and her daughter coming here! That was it, not berated, no belittling, no yelling and screaming that we should have been there on time. He listened to why we were late and didn't pass judgment or even comment on it! It is truly amazing being with someone that isn't like being on a roller coaster ride. No eggshells on the floor. I can tell the truth and there aren't consequences, just real understanding. It is wonderful!
OP give it time and I bet your ying and yang will come back and you will meet someone that is what you need and cares about you.
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Posted: 1/15/2009 3:18:31 AM | | hi- im a scottish 'pof'er and i dont know why im on here anymore. I go on the uk forums when i have time. I agree with the attitude of 'you all wearing your white coats' - experience of mentally ill people is NOT fun - I understand BUT i know i have depression, iTHINK i am personality disordered and may have been for years but psychiatrist REFUSES to agree even though a lot of my symptoms are nowhere near depression. I try to control it all thru mega vits - omega oils and excersize , most of the time it helps a little,but that doesnt stop me being lonely. Ive had 2 'bites at the cherry ' so to speak, the last ended in failure as I didnt have enough time to give to online communiction as well as work and my kids- and yes- im not a brilliant mother. Through these opinions , experiences and comments and my already depressed view of my life and how I act I really dread the future and it seems the certainty of growing old alone. oh for the fairytale 3 wishes. | |
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Posted: 1/15/2009 3:21:00 AM | | just to add 'bubbles1972' - I DO understand - been there- doing that and i wish i could make it go away for both of us , hon. xx | |
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Posted: 1/18/2009 12:40:16 PM | blue blonbee- thank you for the update. Sorry to hear about the way he went about the divorce. I too will not be with someone that is bi-polar again. There is a very small window there if they are truly properly medicated, but it is doubtful.
I completely understand where you are coming from! I was with my ex from the time I was 19. As the years went by, I knew there was alot more going on than I could understand. I just thought that we had many similarities in the way we grew up and the abuses we suffered as children. Even after he started to tell me about how he felt when he was depressed, I thought it was something similar to the way I had felt. I had NO REAL IDEA of the depth off this problem. There was only so many times I could tell him that he was a good, decent-hearted person worth loving. No matter what, he would never believe it to be true. I stood by him for 18 years, through all the struggles and the heartaches. He also has chronic pain and medical issues. I was there and supportive and understanding for all of it. When he fell for someone else last year and spent 6 months telling me about how conflicted he was regarding whether he wanted to be with me and told me that he loves me but is not in love with me, and was making plans to move out of state with her, telling me it was ok for me to quit my job, etc., got diagnosed BPII, meds didn't work, tried to OD twice that is what ended it for me.
There is only so much one person can handle on their own. Spouses aren't saints. After the diagnosis, it all started to make sense. For so long, I had thought I was the one losing my grip on reality. It's amazing how my life gradually became NORMAL. I thought that all you needed was love and that our relationship was alright. It was only after it all started really going downhill that I became aware of how difficult things had been. Yes, I was walking on eggshells, never knowing what kind of mood he would be in when coming in the door, littlest things would set him off. He was not abusive, but this was similar and I wasn't even aware of how unhealthy it was. We also became completely dependent on each other. Only now, I realize how unhealthy this was for everyone.
Now, things are improving. He is on different meds that work better but things between us will never be what I always thought they would and we are going our separate ways. Even though not being together wasn't my idea, it has become clear that it can't work between us. And he does not want me to be unhappy either. In a way, it's like he has also said that he wants me to go live my life because being with him will only bring pain.
To his credit, he was never violent with me, never verbally abusive (though there were subtle ways he would show disapproval, in a passive-aggressive way), stayed around to care for me and children for 10 years after he fell out of love with me, he loves to take care of people, he's delightful to be around when not on a low, and he is trying very hard to become more well and functional. And for this I am very proud of him. Just wishing it had happened 10 years ago instead.
There is really not any way someone can understand what this disease is like. The neverending thoughts that you are worthless and have no reason to live or be loved, the despair, the sudden disappearance or shunning from friends with no explanation as to why, the self-medication just to stop the pain of thinking.
BUT, I am still here being a friend (even tho sometimes it's hard) and being someone he knows loves him while he is learning how to cope with life and becoming independent. And he is doing the same for me. | |
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Posted: 1/18/2009 8:05:35 PM | blueblonbee1
REGARDING THE MESSAGE FROM THE PERSON THAT WROTE THE FOLLOWING....I JUST HAVEN'T CHECKED THE FORUMS LATELY...AND I NOTICED THAT THE PERSON UNDER MY MESSAGE, THOUGHT I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE SENSITIVITY OF THIS SUBJECT. I WAS ONLY ANSWERING WITH MY EXPERIENCE.."MY EXPERIENCE " WAS AWFUL. AND I AM NOT SURE THAT MY EX WAS BI POLAR, MANIC DEPRESSIVE, SEXUAL DEVIANT, OR WHAT ALL MIXED UP INTO ONE MAN. ALL I KNOW IS THIS.....
HE DIDN'T WANT TO WORK..EVER....HE LOVED BEING ON A GREAT DEAL OF MEDICATION THAT MADE HIM SLUR HIS WORDS, HE WAS DEPRESSED AND OUT OF HIS MIND WITH WANTING TO STEAL THINGS (HE DID STEAL THINGS FROM STORES...AND I WAS AFRAID HE'D GET ME INTO TROUBLE AS WELL.)....AND HE WAS ALWAYS LOOKING AT KNIVES IN THE STORES...AND WONDERING WHY THEY WEREN'T BEHIND LOCKED CABINETS.
HE WAS ON SO MANY MEDICINES, I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE HOW MANY THEY WERE. BUT I SAW THEM...AND THE DOCTOR THAT GAVE THEM TO HIM, ALSO TALKED HIM INTO SHOCK THERAPY!!! TWICE....AND IT WAS ABOUT 10 SESSIONS EACH TIME. (THAT NEVER DID HIM ANY GOOD) I WAS BEHIND HIM 100 PERCENT FOR MOST OF THE TIME WE WERE HITCHED. BUT HIS CONSTANT HOSPITAL STAYS....OVER AND OVER AND OVER...AND HIM TRYING TO AND EVENTUALLY SCREWING ANOTHER WOMAN...THAT I KNEW ...AND ALL THE DRAMA...WAS MAKING ME SICK! HE HAD ANGER TANTRUMS IN THE MARKET..AND WOULD PUSH A CART TO HIT ME ON THE BACK OF MY LEGS....WHEN I WAS A FEW FEET IN FRONT OF HIM. HE ALSO WOULD , WHEN WALKING BESIDE ME ON THE STREET ....PUSH ME OVER TO ONE SIDE...AND I'D LOSE MY STEP...AND HE THOUGHT THAT WAS FUN..TO MAKE ME LOOK SILLY. HE FINALLY LEFT A HOSPITAL THE LAST TIME HE WENT IN WHILST BEING WITH ME...AND WENT OFF WITH A WOMAN THAT HAD MORE PROBLEMS THEN ANYONE: MULTIPLE PERSONALITY ...AND OTHER THINGS...THEY TOOK OFF AND WENT ON A TRIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY. OF COURSE I WOULD AND DID NOT TAKE HIM BACK AFTER THAT. THE HARM THAT HE MIGHT HAVE CAUSED ME...I MEAN PHYSICAL HARM...WAS THE KNIVES HE USED TO HOLD UP TO ME AND TELL ME HE COULD KILL ME RIGHT NOW IF HE WANTED. HE WAS THE WORST THING I EVER CONNECTED WITH...WELL, THE SECOND WORST PERSON IN MY LIFE. AND LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO "YES MAN" A PERSON AND WALK ON EGG SHELLS AND BE MISERABLE. BEING WITH A VERY MOODY PERSON IS DRAINING! JUST MY EXPERIENCE.
SO THAT IS MY EXPERIENCE....I KNOW AND I AM NOT UN IN TELLIGENT...I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DO WELL ON MEDS....AND SO FORTH....BUT THERE ARE THE FEW....THAT ARE BEYOND WANTING HELP...THEY JUST WANT TO MEDICATE....WHEN IT USED TO BE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL....AND NOW ITS PRESCRIBED MEDS....THEY SOMETIMES JUST FALL INTO THE CATAGORY OF MY EX.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME IN READING THIS.
(HERE WAS THE POST I REPLY'D TO IN THE FIRST PLACE)
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Posted: 9/29/2008 9 07 PM
anyone here ever had a husband that was bipolar and hdhd? really hurt bad when he shows a different side of himself, he was very lovable, but had a bad temper, mood swings, i walked on eggshells everyday. thought he was my soulmate, loved him very much and believe i still do, cant get him off my mind, but the things he says or does hurts, been separated for over a year now, he can't or won't cummunicate. don't know what to do. looking for friends. | |
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Posted: 1/18/2009 8:23:07 PM | | understand the walking on egg shells, trying to do everything right. Sorry you had to go through this , but sometimes taking yourself out of the picture can force somebody to help themselves. You can"t change a chemistry unbalance all you can do is be supportive, but you have to be able to look after yourself. | |
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Posted: 1/18/2009 10:58:02 PM | The only thing that helped me be healthy is when I didn't let my bi polar/manic depressive ex come back to the house. I finally got up enough self esteem to let him go .When he went on his trip across the country with the last hospital floozy, I would have been a fool to take him back. Enough was enough...and I had had enough drama and pain and tears...and cheating...and threats . I lived the life of a so called recovering alcoholic/drug addict...by even going to countless meetings with him the whole time we were together. He thought he was G..ds gift to women. He was dragging me down down down. He was not looking to get well, this one. He was looking for attention. And I was too sweet and nieve . Once he moved in after we got hitched...he would then forever tell me....he had no place to go....only the streets....working on my sensitivity...my mind. It was crazy making. I was so happy after I let him go. He couldn't believe it. He thought I was kidding. He kept begging me back...making himself look sadder and sadder trying to get me to give in. And after I had given in a few times.....it was clear...it was just to get into my good graces...so he could lay around like a lump on a log...and have his medicines to keep him high..and so forth.
The best thing after letting him go. Is I moved and changed my phone number...he does not know where I am. And I am the better for it. Life is so wonderful without all that horrible drama.
So my advise from my standpoint is.....if you are bi polar..I am sensitive to that....but if you are living with a really bad drama case, that doesn't get better...it is because they don't really get better, some of those with really bad mood disorders. And that I am alive to tell this story. Means I got out alive. Who knows what he would have done if he flipped out. He even said at one time or another to the doctors and me...that he heard voices. Should I have given him a chance to kill me? No siree! I am not a victim. I am a survivor.
I only am saying this from my experience. I am not a doctor. I was a wife of a person that really was in bad shape...and got lots of attention with it....and he wollowed in it...and I had to eventually get away. Everyone deserves happiness. | |
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Posted: 1/22/2009 5:09:09 PM | I am horrified at weighted negative attitude towards the bipolar condition that is being expressed here!
It is as if you hate people with bipolar condition the way that Hamas hates Israelis!
Perhaps some decades ago, you would have been saying this about colour
or sexual orientation (ooh stay away from those blacks and those gays and lesbians, they're trouble etc).
I am a black male WITH bipolar condition, so the cowards in this forum can run off in TWO directions now.
I was only diagnosed in 2000, but I had subtler symptoms of the condition in my earlier life.
I manage the condition very well help and support, but it is SO annoying to find that the REAL problem I now have with bipolar condition is the STIGMA from other people. I have been discriminated in the workplace in TWO jobs, I am even being discriminated by elderly members of my own family who have their bigoted religious heads up their bottoms!
So many people with a mental health condition either end up alone, lonely, or both. People are just ignorant to how frustrating it can be to form any relationship, even a friendship, while living with a mental health condition.
I'm gonna lay down the gauntlet here to ANYONE on this forum who is making negative sweeping generalisations about people with bipolar condition.
Say what you mean. Do you think the world should be rid of people with bipolar condition? I reckon you do. Perhaps you want to kill us all off, like the Nazis wanted to kill all Jews. Do want to start with me? | |
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Posted: 1/22/2009 7:59:14 PM |
I am horrified at weighted negative attitude towards the bipolar condition that is being expressed here!
It is as if you hate people with bipolar condition the way that Hamas hates Israelis!
Perhaps some decades ago, you would have been saying this about colour
or sexual orientation (ooh stay away from those blacks and those gays and lesbians, they're trouble etc).
I am a black male WITH bipolar condition, so the cowards in this forum can run off in TWO directions now.
I was only diagnosed in 2000, but I had subtler symptoms of the condition in my earlier life.
I manage the condition very well help and support, but it is SO annoying to find that the REAL problem I now have with bipolar condition is the STIGMA from other people. I have been discriminated in the workplace in TWO jobs, I am even being discriminated by elderly members of my own family who have their bigoted religious heads up their bottoms!
So many people with a mental health condition either end up alone, lonely, or both. People are just ignorant to how frustrating it can be to form any relationship, even a friendship, while living with a mental health condition.
I'm gonna lay down the gauntlet here to ANYONE on this forum who is making negative sweeping generalisations about people with bipolar condition.
Say what you mean. Do you think the world should be rid of people with bipolar condition? I reckon you do. Perhaps you want to kill us all off, like the Nazis wanted to kill all Jews. Do want to start with me?
I don't think its negative per-say. People who have had relationships with Bipolar people are giving their account of what living with them is like.
So many people with a mental health condition either end up alone, lonely, or both. People are just ignorant to how frustrating it can be to form any relationship, even a friendship, while living with a mental health condition.
Do you think how frustrating it can be by living with someone who is bipolar? ( Without being diagnosed, without medication anyway ) Its not a cakewalk eather.
I know, because I lived with at least one person that had it, who was my stepson. I also believe my wife had it also, but passed away before we knew anything.
My life was a living hell. But all that's in the past now. | |
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Posted: 1/22/2009 8:07:05 PM | | ok, so my ex used to blame me for everything that happened. Seems like that is another trait of being bipolar, nonacceptance of problems they cause or emo comments they make that can and do cause others problems... | |
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Posted: 1/22/2009 9:37:03 PM | | A lot of good/bad comments here. There are different forms of bipolar and many different ways to treat it. Personality also plays a factor in behavior, not just the illness. It makes a great deal of sense to seek the advice of a specialist qualified in the field. Relating bipolar to everything negative or criminal is rediculous. Another example of stereotyping and ignorance in which bipolar is equated with being psychotic. Understanding, not baseless fear is the first step we need to take. Not a modern day witch hunt | |
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Posted: 1/23/2009 1:00:26 PM | | it sounds like i wrote your message. i have the same problem. just stay away & try to get over him. it won't change, be glad you got out, i am. good luck. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2009 1:46:28 PM | It is a very tough thing to live with especially when you are seperated and trying to get divorced. It's hard because the person changes all of the time. One interesting thing I've noticed about people who are bi-polar is, if that person is angry with someone else, you are in the clear. Another words, they can be attacking OTHER PEOPLE and almost loving you. It's almost as if they have to be pissed at someone... and if there is no one to be angry at, then it defaults to you.
But getting back to the difficulty following through with divorce, they love you and need you sometimes and really hate you the next. They also don't even recognize their anger when they blow up. It's like a drunk who doesn't know he was drunk as hell the night before. The other thing that is bad about these people is when they are pissed...THEY ARE REALLY PISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are not like ordinary people. They also seem to live with their own rule book..."how the world works according to them". It's tough, I bet you can tell that I have experience with this. Not easy. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2009 2:01:29 PM |
One interesting thing I've noticed about people who are bi-polar is, if that person is angry with someone else, you are in the clear. Another words, they can be attacking OTHER PEOPLE and almost loving you. It's almost as if they have to be pissed at someone... and if there is no one to be angry at, then it defaults to you. OMG I never connected that, I guess subconsciously I may have, but never put it in words. Like when the mechanics couldn't fix the car right away and he blew up at them. It was kind of like a relief that he was yelling about them instead of at me. Of course I had to do the damage control and call the only garage that would work on the car.
But real or imaginary, there were lines drawn as to who he would be mad at and towards the end, it was horrible.
Thank you add ice for the light bulb moment! | |
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Posted: 1/23/2009 4:52:12 PM | I bet that if you think about it ..we can call some people truly bi polar but many have other diagnosis that go along with bi-polar...being bi-polar does not give anyone the right or privelege to act and do as they please when they please and how they please ..
I noticed in my husbands case he was scitzophrenic, bi-polar and suffered from anxiety disorder... meds helped but did not take care of the problem..
I noticed a very odd thing...if he was so mentally ill, why could he be normal and courteous when he needed to be but seemed to treat me with the rage of his DISEASE..
I think often times people use mental illness as a cop out for coping with life as we all do.. and many times it is a choice as for all of us and for them.
How many psychiatrist or psychologists chose to live with a person that has severe mental illness but yet will say we are judging ... live it and still say that ..be on the other side of the fence LIVING not just talking or having therapy sessions with an individual who suffers and they do suffer...
I am not saying that there is no mental illness but i am saying that the label is used too often and as a cop out many times... and i have been in the mental health field professionally for some time ..so i know what i have seen and what i have lived .. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2009 6:34:16 PM | | Its so nice to see that someone has gone through what I have, I had a bi-polor boyfriend for 2 years, went through hell with him, he is ADHD also, took to many drugs, aderal. would scream at me for no reason. that new katy perry song fits it to a tea. but I still love him also, he actually broke up with me! he lives across the street so it makes it super hard to get over him, I see him drive by all the time. I think that we love them because we want to help them. hang in there. | |
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Posted: 1/30/2009 4:39:15 AM | I am Bipolar (I have an official diagnosis and not a glossy magazine diagnosis), most people seem to be describing people who seem to have a personality disorder or anger management issues or really fast mood swings: This is not really what Bipolar is!
Most people with Bipolar have much longer cycles over months even years (unless they are rapid cycling bipolar). My Bipolar illness can make me extremely energetic - when high I once cycled from lands end to john o groats 874 miles in 3 days 15 hours with only 6 hours sleep, I then crashed from this high and was clinically depressed for almost a year after. When high I can become abit grandiose and when very ill I beleive I have special powers, I can hear voices and see things that aren't there, but I never get
aggressive.
Mental health has a ridiculous stigma attached, people are scared of the not ' normal'. I though consider myself a normal guy who takes his pills that make him fat but keep him stable and able to do a degree in nursing and go out and have friends, never been in trouble with the police, never hit my wife or kids, never even shouted at them blah blah blah...
www.rethink.org
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Posted: 1/30/2009 12:21:37 PM |
unless they are rapid cycling bipolar Yup, there are different types of bipolar some that cycle rapidly and this also includes those that don't have effective treatment. The longer it is untreated, the more episodes the faster the cycling, please look up the kindling effect. This is a reality some of us have lived with. Some people spend years getting a proper diagnosis and proper treatment, some people are diagnosed and treated sooner and don't end up being Mr. or Ms. Manic. Unfortunately the OP was/is dealing with someone that isn't on the "good" side of that rainbow. | |
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